Is Shropshire the ‘new Leicestershire’?
catherine.austen@futurenet.com
Ludlow, Potters Farm, Shrops
IT is more than easy to get complacent with the beauty of some areas of England, but on a very slow, twisty road up into the depths of Shropshire, the views and vistas of the surrounding countryside were breathtaking.
There were great areas of rolling green fields, well-tended thick hedges, cosy slopes of bracken and old native woodland blocks all surrounded in the distance by big banks of high but inviting hills.
The Ludlow country is predominantly in Shropshire with little patches butting in to Herefordshire and Worcestershire, too. The kennels are central to the country, at Caynham, having moved there from Downton Castle in 1886 under the care of Sir William Curtis, who was a knowledgeable hound breeder and hunted the pack for 20 years.
Among others, Sir Hugh Arbuthnot and the legendary Captain
